Product Compare
AMD FirePro D500 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM
| GPU | GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Graphics Card | ||
| Release Date | Jan 2014 | Jan 2013 |
| Generation | FirePro | Sea Islands |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| Clock Speeds | ||
| Memory Clock | 1270 MHz | 1375 MHz |
| Memory | ||
| Memory Size | 3GB | 3GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 384bit | 384bit |
| Bandwidth | 243.8GB/s | 264.0GB/s |
| Render Config | ||
| Compute Units | 24 | 32 |
| Shading Units | 1536 | 2048 |
| TMUs | 96 | 128 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| L1 Cache | 16 KB (per CU) | 16 KB (per CU) |
| L2 Cache | 768 KB | 768 KB |
| Theoretical Performance | ||
| Pixel Rate | 23.20 GPixel/s | 29.60 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 69.60 GTexel/s | 118.4 GTexel/s |
| FP32 (float) | 2.227 TFLOPS | 3.789 TFLOPS |
| FP64 (double) | 556.8 GFLOPS | 947.2 GFLOPS |
| Graphics Processor | ||
| GPU Name | Tahiti | Tahiti |
| GPU Variant | Tahiti LE GL | Tahiti XT(215-0821060) |
| Architecture | GCN 1.0 | GCN 1.0 |
| Foundry | TSMC | TSMC |
| Process Size | 28 nm | 28 nm |
| Transistors | 4.313 billion | 4.313 billion |
| Die Size | 352 mm² | 352 mm² |
| Board Design | ||
| TDP | 274W | 250W |
| Suggested PSU | 600 W | 600 W |
| Outputs | 6x mini-DisplayPort 1.21x SDI | 1x DVI1x HDMI 1.4a2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2 |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin | |
| Graphics Features | ||
| DirectX | 12 (11_1) | 12 (11_1) |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Vulkan | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Shader Model | 5.1 | 5.1 |